Albbet aebogast and william hains



(No'ModeL) I A. ARBOGAST & W. HAINS.

WASHING MACHINE.

N0. 334,555. 5 Patented Jan; 19, 1 886.

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ALBERT ARBOGAST AND WILLIAM HAINS, OF SELINS GROVE, PA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 334,555, dated January 19, 1886.

Application filed March '1, 1885. Serial No. 158,023. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALBERT Annoensr and WILLIAM HAINS, citizens of the United States, residing at Selins Grove, in the county of Snyder and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines, of which the following isa specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to washing-machines of that class which comprise a watertight receptacle having a curved bottom provided with ribs or corrugations, and arubber which is adapted to oscillate upon a pivot and to move over the ribbed or corrugated bottom for the purpose of cleansing the clothes; and the invention consists in certain features of construction hereinafter described, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 isa central vertical section of a washing-machine constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the rubbing-boards.

Like letters indicate like parts in both figures.

A represents the case or body of the machine having the curved bottom B, provided with ribs or corrugations O. In this instance each of the ribs 0 is placed over a joint between two of the sections of which the bottom is formed, whereby it is rendered more perfectly water-tight.

D is the rubber-standard, there being one at each end of the machine. A rod, E, extends from one of the standards to the other, and serves as a'handle to operate the rubber, as usual in this class of washing-machines. At the bottoms of the standards are crosspieces F, and from the cross-piece of one standard to that of the opposite standard are three rubbing-boards, G. 'lhe lower edge of each of the rubbing-boards is serrated or notched, forming points G, between which the water has free passage during the operation of rubbing. In this instance, as usual, the standards D are pivotally connected to links H, one at each end of the machine, and these links are pivoted on the rod, bar, or bolt I, so that the rubber is adapted to be used in connection with varied quantities of clothes in the machine, as with a greater quantity the rubbing-boards are at a greater distance from the bottom than with aless, and so that in the 0scillations of the rubber it may be caused to squeeze the clothes at each end of the stroke that is to say, when operated by means of the hand bar or rod E the rubber may be made to follow substantially the line of thebottom, and more or less pressure may be exerted upon the clothes at any point in the movement of the rubber, the greatest pressure being naturally exerted at or near the beginning or the ending of the stroke. During this varied application of pressure the links H oscillate on the pivots I, as shown by dotted lines, and said oscillation may be either above or below the position indicated by the full lines in Fig. 1.

If desired, the rubber-boards G may not only be serrated, as shown in Fig. 2, but they may be chamfered or beveled, as at G Fig. 1, so as to present inclined surfaces to the clothes in the movements of the rubber in both directions.

Having described our invention and its operation,what we claim as new is- The combination of the body or case A, having the curved bottom B, formed of separate strips, the ribs 0, covering the joints in said bottom, and the links H pivoted to said body or case at I and to the standards D, with said standards having the rod E, bars F, and rubbers G, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT ARBOGAST. WILLIAM HAINS. Witnesses:

GEORGE EBY, F. S. SIMPso 

